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Barcelona :: 2003
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bright intersection
of Greek and Roman tourists
inventing the world
soggy playground for
Visigoths, Franks, and Moors; on
bloody vacations
ghost towns abandoned
by vagrant Carthaginians
to Islam's faithful
Christian gardens
irrigated with the blood
of Abram's martyrs
pasture of dragons
real or imaginary
for San Giorgio
counts and no-accounts
gave Charlemagne's real estate
to Hairy Giuffre
tempting odalisque
for the cruel prurience
of Innocent Three
workshop for Vandals
ancient or twenty-cento
black death for Franco
lost in the Ramblas
under circumcised plane trees
Barcino's navel
recycled city
pierced by the Diagonal
and gnostic taxis
so light and airy
Eixample trods in Gaudi's
six-sided footsteps
encrusted casas
knighted with twisted chimneys
and pregnant windows
celestial spoor
biographical midden
of modernisme
collage of Corbu
Mies, Sert, Calder, Miro: but
Dali i Ghery?
bipedal gargoyles
at Casa Marti; Quatre Gats
Picasso's playpen
under stained glass sky
Catala Orpheo ride
Valkyries' white chargers
Puig i Cadafalch
Domenech i Montaner
neat but not Gaudi
helicoid questions
for hyperbolic dactyls
catenary truths
straight-line anecdotes
loved by Gaudi i Cornet
i you i me i ---
deft oxymoron
Humble Architect housing
a Holy Family
limestone palmettos
flung high against the tall sky
counting God's fingers
petrified circus
lizards, snakes, snails, turtles, fowl
and there be dragons
verdant sky-blown crypt
Guell's forgotten rosary
was doomed to succeed
Catalonia
fabricated from lost time
only Jesterday
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Joe Eldredge
haikubador
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